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    There Will Be Blood Soundtrack

    Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood Soundtrack

    12/18/2007 | Nonesuch 

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    All Music Guide Review

    Paul Thomas Anderson's fifth film There Will Be Blood is too monumental and odd to not provoke sharply divided opinions but all reviews, from raves to revulsion, agree on two points: Daniel Day Lewis' performance as oilman Daniel Plainview is astonishing, and Jonny Greenwood's score is extraordinary. Lewis dominates the film, appearing in all but one scene, and Greenwood's music is used far more sparingly yet it's no less indelible. From the moment the film fades open to a spare, unrelenting Californian landscape, Greenwood's tense, coiled score mirrors the eerie emotional undercurrent to the film, pulling suppressed feelings to the surface, often with an almost operatic sense of drama. This is grand music, but it's also controlled, unleashing its furious clashes of dissonance with precision. Greenwood has demonstrated such mastery of mood as the guitarist within Radiohead but There Will Be Blood is superficially far removed from that band's restless experiments with electronic music. There are no electric instruments here at all -- this is all orchestral music, created on instruments that were available at the film's setting of the beginning of the 20th century, yet Greenwood doesn't attempt to re-create turn-of the-century mores: he writes music that taps into the rotten heart of Daniel Plainview. This is magnificently unsettling music, whether it's used within the film or heard on its own terms -- either way, it's impossible to forget after it's been heard. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

    There Will Be Blood Soundtrack Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Open Spaces
  • 3:55
  • Sound Clip for Open Spaces from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


  • 2
  • Future Markets
  • 2:41
  • Sound Clip for Future Markets from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


  • 3
  • Prospectors Arrive
  • 4:34
  • Sound Clip for Prospectors Arrive from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


  • 4
  • Eat Him by His Own Light
  • 2:41
  • Sound Clip for Eat Him by His Own Light from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


  • 5
  • Henry Plainview
  • 4:14
  • Sound Clip for Henry Plainview from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


  • 6
  • There Will Be Blood
  • 2:05
  • Sound Clip for There Will Be Blood from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


  • 7
  • Oil
  • 3:06
  • Sound Clip for Oil from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


  • 8
  • Proven Lands
  • 1:51
  • Sound Clip for Proven Lands from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


  • 9
  • Hope of New Fields
  • 2:30
  • Sound Clip for Hope of New Fields from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


  • 10
  • Stranded the Line
  • 2:21
  • Sound Clip for Stranded the Line from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


  • 11
  • Prospectors Quartet
  • 2:57
  • Sound Clip for Prospectors Quartet from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack


    • There Will Be Blood Soundtrack Notes

    Nominee - 51st GRAMMY® Awards
    Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
    (Award to Composer(s) for an original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current legitimate motion picture, television show or series or other visual media.)
    There Will Be Blood
    Jonny Greenwood, composer

    Guitarist Jonny Greenwood has composed a hauntingly dramatic instrumental score for Oscar-nominated writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s ambitious new film, There Will Be Blood. An adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!, the movie features Daniel Day-Lewis in what The Hollywood Reporter has described as "a powerhouse performance... it’s a certain awards contender." Greenwood’s remarkable compositions, written primarily for strings, have already garnered considerable praise in advance reviews. The score resembles his rock compositions only in the level of daring and inventiveness to be found throughout these tracks – and in the unsettling atmosphere he is able to conjure at key moments. Greenwood’s score is more indicative of his current collaborations with the BBC Orchestra as Composer In Residence – activities closely followed by Pitchfork Media and The Daily Swarm. In fact, the score incorporates material from two orchestral pieces he created in that position, smear and Popcorn Superhet Receiver, which will have its U.S. concert premiere in January 2008 when Greenwood appears at the Wordless Music Series in New York City.

    The soundtrack to There Will Be Blood will appeal to serious movie-music fans, who will appreciate this rare find: an intelligent, beautiful and deeply cinematic orchestrated score – performed by the BBC Orchestra and London Sinfonietta – that can hold its own next to the classic work of such composers as Bernard Herrman, Elmer Bernstein and Ennio Morricone.

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